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RUSH: Marty in northern Virginia, I\u2019m glad you called, sir, welcome to the EIB Network.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, thanks, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, I just had to call when I heard your comment about how the Republican candidates need to energize the base. I like your idea of calling attention to the liberal media bias, but when you got a leader of the Christian right saying they should form a third political party, that\u2019s a real problem. <\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019re talking about Dr. Dobson?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. He doesn\u2019t want McCain; he doesn\u2019t want Thompson; he doesn\u2019t want Giuliani, and he won\u2019t admit it, but he doesn\u2019t want Romney because of his religious bigotry. I\u2019m depressed Newt\u2019s not running, too, but forget about the Hispanic voters, the welfare lobby, any other special interests, the cut-and-run Republicans are going to screw us next year just like they did last year.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m laughing at your manner of expression, not what you\u2019ve said.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, sorry.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, no, no. It\u2019s fine. I enjoy callers that make me laugh. So you did good.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, one more thing, I gotta interrupt you. Listen, I read, I don\u2019t know if it was NewsMax or Human Events today that Algore might run if he wins the Nobel Peace Prize. I think you ought to make the commitment that if you win the prize, you\u2019ll run.<\/p>\n

RUSH: We\u2019re back to this. (laughing) If I win the Nobel Peace Prize, I run for president, that\u2019s the deal, huh?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, make that a promise.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, I\u2019ll promise you, if I win the Nobel Peace Prize, I will run for president.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Great, I\u2019m energized already.<\/p>\n

RUSH: There you got it. Okay. I just printed something from the computer that\u2019s relative to your point. For people that are unfamiliar with what the Dobson position is, could you replay it for them, tell them what it is?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Me?<\/p>\n

RUSH: You, yeah, you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: My understanding is I heard that he doesn\u2019t want McCain; he doesn\u2019t want Thompson; he doesn\u2019t want Giuliani; he won\u2019t admit that he doesn\u2019t want Romney, but he says we\u2019ve got to start a third party. That\u2019s going to hurt us.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, but did you hear why he said this, what his reasoning is?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I don\u2019t know, but what I\u2019m saying is I\u2019m empathetic, not sympathetic, I\u2019m empathetic with that because I\u2019m disappointed with them, too. I wanted Newt, but I\u2019m not dumb enough to say let\u2019s start a third party.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, here\u2019s his reasoning on this, as I\u2019ve had it explained to me. Allow me some variance here to be not quite accurate about this because I\u2019ve heard this secondhand. But I think one of the things that Dr. Dobson has said is that he\u2019s frustrated with a Republican nominee who might be president who is not really down the road what we want, but you can\u2019t criticize him. Once they\u2019re in office, you\u2019re stuck with them and you can\u2019t criticize them, and you end up supporting somebody you know is not right, then you\u2019re saddled with them and you can\u2019t do anything about it because they\u2019re on your team. So his theory is, it would be much better, as I understand this, to have somebody like Mrs. Clinton, who is what she is and represents exactly what we don\u2019t want to allow an opportunity for open criticism in a way of educating the American people about what they\u2019ve done and who they\u2019ve elected and so forth for future elections. I\u2019m paraphrasing this. To Dr. Dobson and a lot of Christian leaders, there\u2019s a single word here that animates them, and that\u2019s abortion. The problem that we have with the presidency is there\u2019s only one thing a president can do to affect abortion, and that\u2019s Supreme Court nominees.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Absolutely.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s the only thing a president can do. So the emphasis on a president\u2019s pro-life views, or pro-choice views in the case of Rudy, has to be balanced with what he has said about the kind of people he\u2019ll put on the court. And he said he would put people like Scalia, Alito, Thomas, Roberts, as nominees, which would be satisfactory to people. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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